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There’s a hilarious sequence in “Big Hero 6” in which Baymax (voiced by Scott Adsit), a walking, talking personal health care companion who looks like the offspring of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and a body pillow,...

David Fincher's film version of the Gillian Flynn bestseller "Gone Girl" is a stealthy, snake-like achievement. It's everything the book was and more — more, certainly, in its sinister, brackish atmosphere dominated by mustard-yellow fluorescence,...

In an anecdote that sticks to the memory like an overdone cookie on an undergreased cookie sheet — those 2011 holiday baking mishaps still rankle — an American visiting the Sorbonne is accosted by a French student.
"You Americans!" the...

Sony is hoping 'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs' will have a future more like 'Bolt' and less like its first animated outing, 'Open Season.' After a decent but not spectacular $30.1-million opening for its adaptation of the popular children's...

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